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p.oxy.14.1665 IIIOxyrhynchos
Letter of a Gymnasiarch via HGV-meta
Letter of the gymnasiarch Sarapion to Claudius asking for oil. A letter from Aurelius Sarapion, a gymnasiarch, to Aurelius Claudius, whom he calls father, asking him to send the 40 metretai of oil he had promised for Sarapion's days of supplying anointing oil. Sarapion has borrowed the oil from friends and needs it quickly to repay them, offering to pay the price at once. Oxyrhynchus, 3rd century AD. machine translation
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- Letter of a Gymnasiarch HGV-meta OxyrhynchosIII
Inscriptions (1)
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· Greek
Transcription
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ΑὐρήλιοςΣαραπίων Αὐρηλίῳ
Κλαυδίωι τῶι πατρὶ πολλὰ
χαίρειν.
καθὼς καὶ παρόντα σε κατʼ ὄψιν
ᾐτησάμην εἰς ἃς μέλλω χρίειν ἡμέρας ἐλαίου μετρητὰς
τεσσαράκοντα , οὓς καὶ καθʼ ἣν
ἔχεις πρὸς ἐμὲ ἀγαθὴν προαίρεσιν ὑπέσχου, νῦν οὖν τῆς
χρείας με κατεπειξάσης
σοὶ θαρρῶν ἔσχον παρὰ φίλων
ἐν χρήσει τοὺς μετρητὰς
τεσσαράκοντα ἐπὶ τῷ αὐτοὺς
ἀποκαταστῆσαι. ἀναγκαίως
οὖν, ἐὰν ἔτι παρὰ σεαυτῷ
χρῖον ἔχῃς, δήλωσον ἢ τῷ
υἱῶι σου ἢ ᾧ ἐὰν σὺ βούλῃ τούτους μοι ἐν τάχει
παρασχεῖν, πρὸς τὸ καὶ ἐμὲ
ἀποκαταστῆσαι τοῖς εὐχρηστήσασί μοι φίλοις, τῆς τιμῆς ἐξαυτῆς μεταβαλλομένης ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ ᾧ ἐὰν δοκιμάσῃς. ἀλλʼ ὅρα μὴ ἀμελήσῃς, μὴ δόξω διαβάλλειν
τοὺς ἀνθρώπους. ἐρρῶσθαί
σε εὔχομαι κατὰ νοῦν διάγοντα.
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Αὐρηλίῳ Κλαυδίωι παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Σαραπίωνος γυμνασιάρχου.Translations (1)
Aurelius Sarapion to Aurelius Claudius his father, many greetings.
As I asked you in person when you were here for 40 metretai of oil for the days on which I am to provide the anointing, which you also promised in keeping with the good disposition you have towards me, now, since need pressed me, relying on you I obtained the 40 metretai from friends as a loan on condition of repaying them. So necessarily, if you still have oil at your place, tell either your son or whomever you wish to supply them to me quickly, so that I too may repay the friends who obliged me, the price being paid over by me at once to whomever you approve. But see that you do not neglect this, lest I seem to be deceiving the men. I pray for your health and that you fare as you wish.
[verso]
To Aurelius Claudius from Aurelius Sarapion, gymnasiarch.
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- TM-Text 31776 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;14;1665 tier-1
- HGV-Text 31776 tier-1
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